History Magazine / DoctorWhoMagazine

* BiologicalMashUp: [[spoiler:The Pariah and Abraham White, Fey and Shayde.]]

* AlphaBitch: Veronica Stockton in "Imaginary Enemies".

* DWM 397 had every word on the cover replaced with "Bad Wolf" as per the ending of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoNSS4E11TurnLeft Turn Left]]".

* DWM 423's cover consists of only a time crack (effectively getting "eaten" by it) in anticipation of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E13TheBigBang The Big Bang]]".

* DWM 423's cover was timenommed in anticipation of "The Big Bang".

* LesYay: The strip gave the Doctor his first openly lesbian companions (in fact, his first openly homosexual companions period): Izzy and Fey. They get to share an intentional kiss on panel.
** Also Majenta and Zephyr.

** After IDW got the licence for American ''Doctor Who'' comics, they began to release a ''Doctor Who Classics'' series of comics publishing the ''Doctor Who Magazine'' strip from the start, sometimes with the original black-and-white strips coloured. This was actually history repeating itself, as in the early 1990s Marvel UK had produced a short-lived ''Doctor Who Classic Comics'' title reprinting selected stories from the 1960s/70s ''TV Comics / Countdown'' ''Doctor Who'' strip.

** WhatCouldHaveBeen: RussellTDavies offered the actual Eight-Nine regeneration to the strip, but a variety of restrictions on the matter (not being able to feature the Ninth Doctor with anyone bar Rose, for example) led to the idea being ultimately dropped by the editorial staff, who felt they wouldn't be able to do it justice with the restrictions they had. A draft script and a drawing is available in the Eighth Doctor compilation ''The Flood''.

* AbortedArc: When the TV series returned in 2005, the strip had to shift over to using the Ninth Doctor and Rose, meaning that companion Destrii's story was left unfinished. She was last seen in the strip walking off with the Eighth Doctor to new adventures.

** Both GrantMorrison and AlanMoore have contributed strips. Although with AlanMoore, it was entirely a case of MoneyDearBoy, as he was convinced [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks the show went downhill as soon as WilliamHartnell left]].

-> ''Adventures space in and time -- every four weeks!''

-> ''All of time and space -- every four weeks''
-->-- Masthead promo, since issue 417

* CanonDiscontinuity: Following ''Series/DoctorWho''[='=]s initial cancellation in 1989, the strip tied in with [[VirginNewAdventures Virgin Publishing's New Adventures novel range]], featuring book companion BerniceSummerfield, and a notably older Ace. Later on, however, the DWM editor decided to break with NA continuity, and proceeded to do so by killing off a notably ''younger'' Ace in "Ground Zero", making the NA tie-ins Discontinuity. However, the Tenth Doctor strips have made [[ContinuityNod reference]] to strips both before and after the break. Notably, "Death to the Doctor" had a gathering of previously unseen villains who had all lost to one of the Doctors at some point. One flashback featured the Eighth Doctor and Izzy, confirming that the ninth and tenth Doctor comic strips are in the same continuity as the post-"Ground Zero" strips. Meanwhile, "The Betrothal of Sontar" makes reference back to "Pureblood", one of the NA tie-in strips. Izzy has also gone on to appear in a BigFinish audio play. Considering The TARDIS is capable of reviving the dead via the wibbly-wobbly powers of a "temporal orbit", it's not TOO hard to fathom how Ace could survive the events of "Ground Zero" and still have her adventures in the Virgin books
** Adding to the complications surrounding Ace, Russel T. Davies hinted in the SJA/DW crossover "Death of the Doctor" that Ace had established a charity on Earth under her real name of Dorothy. In the novels, Ace goes on to become a time vigilante living in remote Paris...and in the audio play DeathComesToTime, she inherits the TARDIS after the Seventh Doctor seemingly dies and goes on to have solo adventures. Will the real Dorothy please stand up indeed...

* ArtShift: The RupertBear parody in the Voyager arc, and the Doctor shifting between alternate universes in "The Glorious Dead".

* {{Homage}}: "The Deep Hereafter", homaging both RaymondChandler's detective stories and WillEisner's ''TheSpirit''.

* XanatosGambit: See TheChessmaster above.

** WhatCouldHaveBeen: RussellTDavies offered the actual Eight-Nine regeneration to the strip, but a variety of restrictions on the matter (not being able to feature the Ninth Doctor with anyone bar Rose, for example) led to the idea being ultimately dropped by the editorial staff, who felt they wouldn't be able to do it justice with the restrictions they had. A draft script and a drawing is available in the Eighth Doctor compilation ''The Flood''.

* Not a true example: a joke cover of DWM 396 [[http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m25/TardisKid/DWM396.jpg was mocked up]] and released on their {{Facebook}} page; the same way real ones are, featuring StevenMoffat in response to someone on the DoctorWhoForums wondering if he'd be mentioned on the cover. Some posters took it for real.

* CityOfWeirdos: The Tenth Doctor comic "Bus Stop". The Doctor borrows a random commuter's phone, sonics it, and starts yelling instructions to Martha, who's on Mars in the distant future. The commuter just wonders why the weirdos always have to sit next to him.

* DarkIsNotEvil: Shayde.

* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Majenta.

* ShoutOut: Dr Ivan Asimoff, whose name is a shout-out to sci-fi author IsaacAsimov.

** RussellTDavies offered the actual Eight-Nine regeneration to the strip, but a variety of restrictions on the matter (not being able to feature the Ninth Doctor with anyone bar Rose, for example) led to the idea being ultimately dropped by the editorial staff, who felt they wouldn't be able to do it justice with the restrictions they had. A draft script and a drawing is available in the Eighth Doctor compilation ''The Flood''.

* CanonDiscontinuity: Following ''Series/DoctorWho''[='=]s initial cancellation in 1989, the strip tied in with [[VirginNewAdventures Virgin Publishing's New Adventures novel range]], featuring book companion BerniceSummerfield, and a notably older Ace. Later on, however, the DWM editor decided to break with NA continuity, and proceeded to do so by killing off a notably ''younger'' Ace in "Ground Zero", making the NA tie-ins Discontinuity. However, the Tenth Doctor strips have made [[ContinuityNod reference]] to strips both before and after the break. Notably, "Death to the Doctor" had a gathering of previously unseen villains who had all lost to one of the Doctors at some point. One flashback featured the Eighth Doctor and Izzy, confirming that the ninth and tenth Doctor comic strips are in the same continuity as the post-"Ground Zero" strips. Meanwhile, "The Betrothal of Sontar" makes reference back to "Pureblood", one of the NA tie-in strips.

The longest running official [[TelevisionTieInMagazines Television Tie In Magazine]] in the world, as declared by Guinness World Records, ''DoctorWhoMagazine'' started off as ''Doctor Who Weekly'' back in ''1979''.

* The Matrix Databank. ItJustBugsMe in ''DoctorWhoMagazine''. Originally written by Andrew Pixley, it returned with a flippant approach, hosted by [[SdrawkcabName Sorvad]] (also credited with the occasional spoof news column "Space-Time Telegraph"). It has used "guest presenters" (usually companions) for a while with various explanations as to Sorvad's location.

* SoYouWantToLiveForever: Astrolabus.